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doctorhandshake ◴[] No.45154403[source]
Independent lab testing of consumer packaged goods is so important, expensive, unprofitable, and downright risky from a libel standpoint that I dare say it should be the role of government to do it.
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socalgal2 ◴[] No.45154454[source]
Yes, because government inspectors are flawless and would never take bribes to let things pass or force them to fail. Nope, they'd never do that.
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1. unethical_ban ◴[] No.45154646[source]
False implication and assuming private companies with solely a profit motive are themselves angels.

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oh, excuse me. "No siree, never would a for-profit company put out false products, nope, not ever"